SaikyouKantei 17: Looks Like a Cheat is a Cheat After All.

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Saikyō no kantei-shi tte dare no koto?~ Manpuku gohan de i sekai seikatsu ~
Author: Minatose Tsukasa
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Looks Like a Cheat is a Cheat After All.

The person himself is taking it easy, but his abilities and belongings were cheats.

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“Just what is with your Skills …”
“… Even if you ask me …”


In Ali’s room, both Yuuri and Ali were completely drained of energy. They had varying feelings of exhaustion. Yuuri was simply troubled, while Ali was holding his head while groaning. Ali is usually bold and brash, but when it comes to Yuuri, ah no, when it comes to Yuuri’s Skill ‘God’s Eye’ and his Job Seeker, he can’t not hold his head. Today is like that as well.

For Ali, Yuuri needs to be taught the common sense and all sorts of knowledge about this world. Furthermore, he needs to give him lectures on the significance of the Appraisal Skill and its usages. So basically, he’s something like a master to Yuuri. Although he gives off more of a meddlesome brother feeling.

Among all of that, he listens to some of Yuuri’s concerns. And that is the origin of today’s situation.


“Does the Appraisal type Skills have a dictionary function?”


Naturally, Ali’s response was simply, “What the hell is that?” That’s normal. Even Ali’s ‘Magic Eye’ doesn’t come equipped with such a mysterious function.

In short, ’s ‘God’s Eye’ Skill has it.

The point is, it’s a situation where he can revisit all the information he’s appraised up until now again. Things that fluctuate, like the statuses of people and monsters, have the information they did when he saw them. The things whose statuses don’t change have the same results as before. It’s possible to review these whenever he wants. It’s completely a dictionary function.

There’s even another bonus attached.

Yuuri was reading a book that laid out this world’s current affairs, as well as a book that was an anthology of folklores. As he read it, he stared at a proper noun he didn’t really understand, and would you believe it, he was able to appraise it. When a bunch of country names and people’s names appeared, he couldn’t quite grasp them, and when he stared at them, the usual, expected appraisal screen appeared and he was able to understand a lot of data. … Now, this can not be normal.


“You know, Appraisal is an ability where you examine something in front of your eyes, okay? Hey, do you understand me?”

“Even if you tell me that…”

“It’s your Skill, right?”

“It’s not like I understand it myself either…”


Yuuri’s shoulders slumped. It’s the truth, so there’s nothing he can do about it. Even if ‘God’s Eye’ is a Skill that’s a cheat without limits, it’s not like he was born with it. It’s not like he wanted it. He just had it before he realized it. In fact, he’d definitely want to ask why he was given such a cheat if he could.

While holding his head, the only thing Ali could tell Yuuri was just one simple thing.


“You must absolutely never talk about this outside.”


The bald, one-eyed Ali is seriously scary when he looks serious. He’s scary, but Yuuri obediently nodded. Yuuri was extremely grateful for Ali, who accommodated an unknown person from an unknown place like himself, and even provided all his daily necessities on top of teaching him all sorts of things. Because of that, he has no intentions of going against this man’s wishes.


“… And then? There’s also checking your belongings’ abilities.”

“… For starters, they’ve all become Magic Items.”

“Was that different from before?”

“Yes.”


He can’t lie about that, so he nodded honestly. Ali also didn’t understand what kind of principle was behind this, so so he decided to just check the Magic Items. … At any rate, Magic Items, as their name suggests, are different from normal tools. There are all sorts of possible abilities they can have.

On top of that, their owner is Yuuri. The carefree, leisurely, my-pace, fluffy airhead. For this sort of person to possess a large amount of unknown Magic Items, you can’t overlook it and think they’re normal. And so, on a day when he had time, he went and checked these Magic Items once again.

Yuuri took all of his personal belongings out of his changed schoolbag and arranged them on top of the table. For the time being, he hadn’t put anything other than what had originally been in the schoolbag, so it’s unusual capacity wasn’t obvious. Furthermore, the implements Simphe took out didn’t look changed by appearance. … Simply put, these other world’s writing tools and daily supplies became Magic Items when he came here. No one knows the reaason why.

And so, the two of them began to appraise.


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Yuuri’s Schoolbag

Yuuri Kugimiya’s schoolbag. A magic bag with high performance.

No capacity limit. Time stop. Sort function. Only possible to be used by the owner.

However, with the owner’s permission, it is possible for another to put luggage into the bag only.


“… What’s a Sort function?”

“Uuum, it automatically organizes and sorts the things inside the bag by type.”

“… … that’s kind of really incredible.”

“Uuum … sorry?”

“Don’t apologize.”


It’s not like Yuuri can do anything even if he got angry, but he apologized for now, as was his nature. For now, he just gave the most important warning regarding Yuuri’s schoolbag, to be careful not to let other people take it.

… But regarding that, Yuuri’s reply was,


“Ah, it seems like it will return to me if someone other than me takes this bag without permission.”

“What kind of magic bag is this!?”

“Eh-, well, I mean, that’s just the note about it -”


Ali’s shout echoed, but Yuuri couldn’t reply any other way. Furthermore, that now couldn’t be seen by anyone but Yuuri. Was it the effect of the Skill ‘God’s Eye’, or was it simply because he was the owner? He couldn’t tell. That said, it seems this abnormal magic bag can’t be taken away by anyone other than Yuuri, so Ali breathed a sigh of relief. Even if it couldn’t be used, it’s very desirable to those types of people who’d want to know its structure.

Regrouping, they continued the appraisal.

… However, Yuuri had left things that didn’t exist in this otherworld, like his smartphone and mp3 player, in the bag. Whatever you say, this schoolbag is a magic bag that can only be used by Yuuri. Not even Ali, who has Appraisal, can realize what’s inside it. And so, in order to avoid chaos, he decided not to show them. … Once in a while, Yuuri will think about these sorts of things.


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Yuuri’s Sewing Needle

Yuuri Kugimiya’s sewing needing. A Magic Item with high performance.

Can sew anything. Will never break. Raises sewing ability.

However, only the owner and those granted permission may use it. Has no killing or wounding ability.


“… What does it mean by sewing anything?”

“I tested it out and was able to sew a wooden planl.”

“What about the thread?!”

“… it was normal thread.”

“Is the thread threaded through the needle powered up?…”


Yuuri made to apologize to the dumbfounded Ali, but he stopped. Since he knew that Ali would just retort, don’t apologize. Furthermore, the sewing needle was part of a sewing set, so there were also a number of pins with it. Something to note is the part about having no wounding or killing ability; actually, he had poked his finger with this needle and made no wound. With all said and done, this is a design that would be welcomed by beginners.

Of course, he’s originally good at sewing, and the Sewing Skill Level 50 Yuuri would never make such a novice mistake as pricking his finger with the needle.


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Yuuri’s Sewing Thread

Yuuri Kugimiya’s sewing thread. A Magic Item with high performance.

Will never run out. Furthermore, will never break once stitched. However, only the owner and those granted permission may use it.


“… The thread too, huh?”

“It’s useful that I’ll never run out~”

“That’s. What. You. Pay. Attention. To. This idiot!”

“It hurts, it hurts …!”


With his head in a tight grip, Yuuri rapped on the table as if tapping out. From the sewing needle to the sewing thread, it wasn’t strange that Ali got mad. All sorts of things were abnormal. And this was going to continue. It will continue.

After all, there were more things just within the sewing set.


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Yuri’s Sewing Scissors

Yuuri Kugimiya’s sewing scissors. A Magic Item with high performance.

Scissors that can cut through any kind of thread. The blades will never nick or chip.
However, only the owner and those granted permission may use it. Has no killing or wounding ability.


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Yuuri’s Notebook

Yuuri Kugimiya’s notebook. A Magic Item with high performance.

Will never run out no matter how much it is used. The written words will never deteriorate.

However, only the owner and those granted permission may use it.


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Yuuri’s Ballpoint Pen

Yuuri Kugimiya’s ballpoint pen. A Magic Item with high performance.

Will never run out no matter how much it is used. It can write on anything. Anything written will never be erased.

However, only the owner and those granted permission may use it.


“… So basically, all of them are like this?”

“They’re all like this.”

“… …Got it. It’s enough.”

“Is it? There’s still the mechanical pencil and eraser, and the pen knife; there’s all sorts of things, though.”

“They’re all the same even if I look. Also, don’t lend them out all willy nilly.”

“I won’t lend them out ~. Because only I’ll use them~”


Ali dropped his shoulders at Yuuri’s self-satisfied smile. Luckily, what Yuuri had were writing tools and sewing implements, nothing that was extremely important. There wasn’t anything Ali had been wary of, like offensive magic tools or weapons. He can rest assured of that, at least.

Furthermore, all of the bladed items that look like they could be used as weapons all have the phrase, “Has no killing or wounding ability.” on them. It seems that they won’t wound not only the owner but also the one they’re pointed against. In one sense, it’s exceptional safety design. … … Although the reality is that he has no ability to protect himself.


“What can I say, you yourself are already abnormal, but the things you have are all sorts of out there…”

“But an unbreakable sewing needle and inexhaustable sewing thread is seriously useful! And pen that can write forever, and a notebook that will never run out!”

“… Oh yeah? I think having large amounts of that pretty paper with its mysterious method of production is pretty awesome, but only you can use it…”

“Eh? If I tear it out like this, other people can use it though? When I tear it out, it’s considered separate from the notebook, so other people can use it like normal paper.”

“What!?”

This notebook isn’t the type that rips clean from the binding, rather this notebook is the type that’s made with perforations so that it’s very easy to tear out. Furthermore, it isn’t pure white, there are faint grids to write in. This grid was a recent invention, with dotted lines as the grid. For a Japanese person, it’s a useful notebook you can write both Japanese and English in. It was very convenient for Yuuri at school as well.

Cleanly tearing it out, Yuuri handed the 1 page he’d just torn out of the notebook to Ali. Ali looked seriously at the page he was handed. And then, the results of the Appraisal were like this.

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1 Page of Yuuri’s Notebook.

A page torn from Yuuri Kugimiya’s notebook. It’s pretty, but it’s just paper.

It’s normal paper, but it won’t deteriorate easily, and is strong even when wet. Disappears when damaged.

Anyone can use it.

“… … Are you serious?”

“Ah, would you like to use it Ali? If so, I can tear you a number of them. It’s a Magic Item, so it won’t run out~.”

Smiling happily, Yuuri tore pages out of the notebook. Slowly, the high quality, pure white pages piled up on top of the table (although how Ali would use the dotted lines was a mystery), and Ali watched, dumbfounded.

In the end, when Ali came back to himself and stopped Yuuri’s eccentricities, the amount of notebook pages piled on top of the table were several tens of pages. … Well, it’s a consumable resource, and it’s not troublesome to have a lot of paper. And with such high class paper, he doesn’t have any complaints.

He doesn’t have any complaints, but it wasn’t ridiculous that Ali muttered, “You really need to cut it out,” and poked Yuuri in the head.

That lined paper that was easy to write on became well-known, and those in the paper manufacturing industry began to struggle hard, is a matter that happens a little later.


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A/n: Yuuri didn’t say it, but the thread can also be used the same way…

Once Yuuri cuts it at any length, that will become very strong, ordinary thread.

It’s the infinite supply cheat.

Well, the person himself isn’t thinking too hard about it, so he’s only thinking that it’s useful for his own use…

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